Thoughts on social, political, educational and business issues; Descriptions of my businesses and hobbies; My tentative plans for retirement; Notes on getting together and keeping in touch with my high school and college classmates and our reunions; Also Notes on my Family Research. I think I'll toss in a little humor on occasion, too. I welcome ideas for future discussions.

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08 April 2015

Here are three more Kendas owned by Patrick McCarthy:
The first one is obviously from his middle, Psychedelic Period, the one with which I'm most familiar.
I believe the third one is also from this period. The second one is not so easy to date.

About Me

Graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology in 1973. Prior to that, I attended North Miami High School and graduated in 1969.

I am a past Conservation Chairman for Broward County Audubon Society and a present member in good standing of American Mensa.

I have worked for Rockwell Int'l in Richardson, TX, and for the Air Force in GA and presently own a small air cleaner company, Pure Air Systems, Inc., in South Florida. As a sideline, I repair old/antique furniture, primarily reweaving rush, cane, wicker and Danish cord seats.

In recent years, I have taken up working with leather, making various items for fun. It was suggested to me that I should offer these things for sale, so I set up an Etsy.com account in order to do just that. Should the viewer be interested, my "shop" is entitled ArnoldsLeatherGoods; one word.

I have spent a great deal of time in tracking down old classmates/schoolmates from kindergarten days to college and have reunited a fair number of old friends with each other. I have instigated our FIT reunions for those of us who graduated with BSEEs in '73. Our first reunion was a rousing success. I decided to invite EEs of all degrees from the two years prior to '73 and two years after '73 to join us in 2013. I was unable to locate many of the schoolmates from those other four years and the 2013 reunion was rather sparsely attended. The next one will be in 2018 in Melbourne during the school's Homecoming week . I have four more years to track these fellows down and I hope our next attempt will be more successful.

I am also on my high school reunion committee, trying to track down missing alumni and determine which ones may have died; when, where and how, if possible.

I have had some chronic pain problems in the last several years, but still keep my hand in on conservation and especially animal (wildlife and domestic) welfare issues.